Call of the Scarab: Ahn'Qiraj Loot Overview

The Richiamo dello Scarabeo starts on January 21st, paying tribute to the opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj from January 2006. As some of the World Quests ( and ) send you into the raids, we wanted to preview all of the neat items you can acquire from these zones! From bug mounts to battle pets, there's something for everyone. However since it's been over a decade since Ahn'Qiraj, you may have forgotten some of these items--or never knew about them if you're a recent Warcraft player.

A unique part of Wowhead is the rich history of user-submitted comments and screenshots; it's fun to take a trip down memory lane and see all the old tips and tricks on the linked pages in this article.

Players can farm 3 piece sets from boss drops. These sets had quirky set bonuses back in the day which affected talent choices, but they are disabled now. The primary motivation to work on these sets now is to collect the weapons for unique transmog appearances.

One person on each server completed an elaborate questline to bang the gong and open the gates: you can read about all the requirements on the Veteran of the Shifting Sands page. For a brief overview, there were three different shards which were scattered around Azeroth:Red Shard: Complete a speed run of Blackwing Lair () after grinding out Brood of Nozdormu reputation ().

Blue Shard: Acquire Pollo da 225 kg by completing , acquire Draconic for Dummies pages around the world in , farm goggles in , and create an expensive Arcanite Buoy to summon . This part of the chain is narrated by colorful characters like Azuregos and Narain Soothfancy.

Green Shard: Defeat the four Green Dragon World Bosses () and complete an epic event to save Nighthaven from Eranikus ().

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Commento di Howitzer

small edit Plans: Thick Obsidian Breastplate is a drop from Plans: Thick Obsidian Breastplate.think you mean The Prophet Skeram

Commento di perculia

on 2017-01-20T15:02:21-06:00

Thanks, fixed!

Commento di frostyfire14

on 2017-01-20T15:12:00-06:00

Thanks @Perculia for this! Amazing raid history here!

Commento di breckdog

on 2017-01-20T16:02:27-06:00

The grand old days of aq. The gong was struck on my server and the server immediately crashed and stayed down. Took 3 days or so before i could log in.

Commento di lovelywaz

on 2017-01-20T16:06:03-06:00

"The first person on the server, as well as anyone who rang the gong 10 hours afterwards,"

Just a little bit fix, it should read who rang the gong within 10 hours afterwards. Right now it sounds like you had to ring it after the 10 hours not within.

Commento di Grortraugh

on 2017-01-20T16:28:21-06:00

I do love that Dark Edge axe.

Commento di Superczar

on 2017-01-20T16:53:16-06:00

Can you even do the scepter chain anymore? I thought it went bye-bye in Cata?

Commento di Percivale

on 2017-01-20T19:47:19-06:00

Are those "dressy" robes, or undressy robes? :-)

Commento di borek921

on 2017-01-20T20:28:53-06:00

"Acquiring the rare red mount rewarded Why? Because It's Red"

Umm.... no it did not. Achievements weren't a thing in WoW until Wrath.

Commento di GreySage

on 2017-01-21T01:10:02-06:00

Small corrections: The mounts weren't tributes to the black mount, nor were they rare. At the time, they were the only mounts you could use inside the raid (AQ40), and since the zone is so freaking huge, were necessary. Also, at least one dropped from every pack. Seriously, after about a month of raiding, people would just destroy or not even loot them in the first place.

But oh, the fond memories of farming giant anubisath guards all over Silithus...

Commento di Jerakal

on 2017-01-21T01:19:50-06:00

Perfect opportunity to give players a once a year chance to get that mount again. So that it wasn't content locked to maybe a few dozen players.

Commento di evitarani

on 2017-01-21T02:58:04-06:00

Can you even do the scepter chain anymore? I thought it went bye-bye in Cata?